Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
Here is some excellent advice, from Matt Burgess, over on Wired UK, about Instagram scams: How to Avoid the Worst Instagram Scams | WIRED UK One of the best bits of advice to remember is that threat actors and scammers quickly congregate to any big story or human tragedy, such …
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I have been explaining throughout the period of the Russia Ukraine conflict, that even though the cyber-threat spread has been limited, so far, it may not remain so and it may take time for the threat to UK organisation and individual systems to develop. Today the National Cyber Security Centre …
Brad Smith, President & Vice Chair at Microsoft discusses what has been learnt, so far, from the Ukraine Russia cyber conflict and looks at how this can easily spread beyond the borders of the conflicting nations: Defending Ukraine: Early Lessons from the Cyber War – Microsoft On the Issues
OSINT = Open Source Intelligence. That is that information that a threat actor can gather about you and your organisation, from open source resources – there is no need to hack you if you leave the information lying around. When I was studying, the weeks we covered OSINT, were some …
Wizard Spider, is the gang that is behind the malware Conti, Ryuk and Trickbot. Research by PRODAFT has examined their growth and operations over the last five years that has built an illicit corporate-like multimillion-dollar organisation. Terms like “full-service”, “it manages the entire lifecycle of a cyberattack” and “it invests …
